A Mendicant

John K. Baldrey, English, 1750 - 1821
after Henry William Bunbury, English, 1750 - 1811

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1794

Engraving on wove paper

Sheet: 19 × 12 in. (48.3 × 30.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

PR.X.213

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower left: W. Bunbury Esq.r del.t; lower right: K. Baldrey Sculp.t; lower center: A MENDICANT./It was one of those Heads which Guido has often painted. Mild, Pale, Penetrating, free from all common place Ideas of fat/contented Ignorance, looking downwards upon the Earth, it look'd forwards, but look'd as if it look'd at something beyond this World./Vide Sterns/Published March 8th 1794 by S. W. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly.

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